Introduction : Books on the Normandy beaches
Modernizing U.S. book publishing
War changes everything, even books
Publishers organize for war and plan for peace
"Books are the most enduring propaganda of all"
Seeking "an inside track to the world's bookshelves"
"Everyone but the janitor" selected the books
Books to pacify and reeducate the enemy
Making the "nice little books"
Liberating Europe with books
The rise and fall of the United States International Book Association
Books for occupied Germany and Japan
Epilogue : American books abroad after 1948.